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  • Globalism and the prison industrial complex | transversal texts

    An Interview with Angela Davis conducted by Avery Gordon
    Angela Davis

    http://transversal.at/transversal/1014/Davis/globalism

    I’d like to begin by asking you to describe what is meant by the “prison industrial complex”.

    Almost two million people are currently locked up in the immense network of US prisons and jails. More than 70 per cent of the imprisoned population are people of colour. Approximately five million people – including those on probation and parole – are directly under the surveillance of the criminal justice system. Three decades ago, the imprisoned population was approximately one-eighth its current size. […] According to Elliott Currie, “[t]he prison has become a looming presence in our society to an extent unparalleled in our history – or that of any other industrial democracy. Short of major wars, mass incarceration has been the most thoroughly implemented government social programme of our times.”[1]

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